Nicholas Gunner

Ph.D. (in progress), School of Integrative Plant Science

Cornell University · Cornell AgriTech, Geneva, NY

• Cyber-Agricultural Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) Laboratory
• Committee: Dr. Yu Jiang (advisor), Dr. Terry Bates, Dr. Sara Emery, Dr. Katie Gold
• AI, sensing, satellite data, and robotics applied to specialty-crop production and decision support
• Supported by NASA Acres
• Graduate coursework: BTRY 6010 Statistical Methods I; BTRY 6020 Statistical Methods II

B.S. Communication

State University of New York at Fredonia

• Concentrations: digital film, audio/radio production, earth science

Semester abroad — European history, culture & international relations

American University in Bulgaria

Owner / Farm Operator

Gunner Gardens (Orbitist LLC) · Holland, NY

• Founded and operate a 24-acre diversified specialty-crop and agritourism farm: U-cut/U-pick cut flowers, grapes, raspberries, and honeybees
• Children's outdoor education program serving ~60 students per season
• Lead production planning, sales and marketing, finances, and an on-farm precision-agriculture program
• Transitioning the operation to no-till, cover-cropped regenerative production

Ph.D. Student / Graduate Researcher

Cornell University — Cornell AgriTech, CAIR Lab · Geneva, NY

Lead Software Developer

Cornell Lake Erie Research & Extension Laboratory (CLEREL) · Portland, NY

• Lead full-stack developer of "My Efficient Vineyard" (myEV) — rebranded Every.Farm in 2026 — a cloud-based GIS delivering precision-viticulture and spatial-analysis tools to grape growers across major growing regions worldwide
• Continually expanding the platform's data-science capabilities and user base

Founder / Co-owner

Orbitist LLC

• Founded a geospatial software company that grew from web development and multimedia production into cloud-based GIS and data-science tools for agriculture
• Serve government, non-profit, and business clients; maintain a portfolio of mapping products including trailhub.org
• Co-owned 50/50 with Caitlin Gunner; the company houses the Gunner Gardens farm enterprise

Freelance video producer

Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History · Jamestown, NY

New Media Manager

State University of New York at Fredonia

• Redeveloped the university's web presence (mobile-first); implemented content management systems
• Led a team of student bloggers and a media manager; oversaw campus social media
• Produced multimedia marketing including two regional TV campaigns

Founder, WNY.FM

Regional multimedia magazine

• Acquired by the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame, 2013
• Editorial/production internships at NPR's State of the Re:Union and WNED Buffalo

Every.Farm and agent-based workflows in agriculture

I-CIPS (Initiative for Computational Innovation in Plant Sciences) Retreat, Cornell University · Ithaca, NY

Panel discussion: public–private partnerships

Pennsylvania State University · University Park, PA

Cloud-based GIS analysis

Ecological Society of America (ESA) Annual Meeting · Baltimore, MD

Citizen science in agriculture (poster)

Northeast Agricultural & Biological Engineering Conference (NABEC) 2025 · Ithaca, NY

Presentation to the NASA agricultural listening tour

Cornell Lake Erie Research & Extension Laboratory (CLEREL) · Portland, NY

Nominee, Student Entrepreneur of the Year

Cornell CALS Innovation Day

Selected participant, BeetlePalooza 2024

Imageomics Institute, The Ohio State University · Columbus, OH

• Invited AI/ML workshop applying computer vision to NEON beetle biodiversity data

Beck Entrepreneurship Fellow

Entrepreneurship at Cornell

• Summer fellowship awarded to develop Recipe Route

NASA Acres — Ph.D. funding

NASA Acres consortium

Guest lecture, undergraduate viticulture course

Cornell University · Ithaca, NY

• Hosted by Ria D'Aversa, Lecturer in Viticulture

Every.Farm (formerly myEV)

• Cloud-based GIS for data collection, mapping, and spatial analysis, developed with Cornell AgriTech and CLEREL

crops.every.farm

• AI-assisted crop database

Recipe Route

• Generates recipes from locally sourced ingredients, connecting communities with nearby farms

TrailHUB

• Trail communication and mapping platform for trail-system operators